Come live with me and be my love

The opening line of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” a poem by Christopher Marlowe.

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Next Day Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields...

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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.

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May and Margaret sang alternately the beautiful old ballad of which they say Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the antistrophe—the reply to the Passionate Shepherd’s desire, “Come live with me, and be my love!”

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Come live with me and be my love.

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Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” beginning— “Come live with me and be my love,” also represents a lover talking to his beloved.

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